DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z JULY 26, 2008
Impact of the Northern and Central California fires: Smoke from long burning wildfires in northern California if being pulled northeast into south central and eastern Oregon and into central Idaho. A fire west of Yosemite is producing a plume of smoke moving north along the western edge of the Sierras. Fires also continue to burn in Monterey county with the smoke moving south out over the ocean from Point Conception south to west of the S. California islands. Idaho: A lone fire in Power county SW of Pocatello is producing a plume of smoke that is moving northeast toward the Tetons. Impact of the Canadian fires: Dense to moderately dense smoke from fires near Great Slave Lake is being pulled northwest toward Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories. Some of the smoke from the fires south of Great Slave Lake is extending southeast and joining with very thick smoke from fires around Lake Athabasca in northern Saskatchewan. This dense pool of smoke is then being stretched and creating a band of smoke that is being pulled around a low in Hudson Bay. The band from Northern Saskatchewan extends southeast across central Manitoba to the Lake of the Woods region of western Ontario. The smoke then widens and becomes less dense to cover most of northern Minnesota, western Lake Superior all of Wisconsin and the northern 2/3rds of Michigan and across the Georgian Bay into eastern Ontario. gls